Chinese New Year Dates for US Pacific Standard Time

The Chinese New Year is the new moon day of the first lunar
month of the lunar year, according to Chinese Lunar
calendar. The first lunar month is the second lunar month after the 11th lunar
month that contains Winter Solstice.

The new moon day of different time zones might fall on the different day of western
Gregorian calendar. China Time Zone (GMT+8) and US Pacific Standard Time (PST or GMT-8) Zone have 16 hours difference.
Therefore, there are more than 50% chance that China and PST time zones have different Chinese New Year dates.
You can see the differences of Chinese New Year date between China and USA time zones from the comparison chart at Chinese New Year Dates at US time Zones.

The first day of the animal year is not the Chinese New Year.
The first day of the animal year is the day when Sun enters ecliptic 315 degree
position. This day is around February 4 of Gregorian calendar every year. This solar month is
called Tiger month, which is the first month of Chinese astrology calendar.

The following Chinese New Year dates are calculated based on US Pacific Standard time zone
(GMT-8), which is west longitude 120 degree time. You can see zodiac color animal names
are in a cycle of 60 beginning from Green Wood Rat (1924 and 1984) and ending
with Black Water Pig.